| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, music |
| Contents |
List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgments: representing Rapa Nui -- Typographic conventions and style. Introduction: Rapanui music in context : Rapanui history in context -- Music and sustainability -- Perspectives on Rapanui music. 1 Singing and survival : Traditional performance contexts -- Traditional ensemble organization -- Traditional instruments -- Other performance accompaniments : Ceremonial objects -- Kai kai -- Costume and body decoration -- Traditional chants and songs -- RItual chants, lineage chants, and Patautau : Patautau -- Patautau performance -- Ancient songs and singing -- Laments -- Songs of celebration and gratitude -- Songs of insult or ridicule -- Performing Riu : Riu Tuai -- Singing, surviving. 2 Religion and renewal : The Rapa Nui mission -- Indigenizing the church : Angata the prophetess -- Weddings and related celebrations -- Disease and distance -- Missionary music and instruments -- Reverend Father Sebastian Englert -- Rapanui sacred songs -- The changing role of the church in Rapanui society. 3 Chilean culture : The Chilean annexation of Rapa Nui -- Company life in the 1920s and 1930s -- Early Latin American musical influences -- Tango Rapanui -- Connecting with Chile -- The folklorization of Rapanui music -- The fiftieth anniversary of Chilean annexation -- Consolidating Rapanui folklore -- The Rapanui Conjunto -- Tapati Rapa Nui -- Rapanui folklore in contemporary Chile -- Chile, folklore, and sustainability. 4 Polynesian pathways : The localization of Tahitian Ute : Ute performance -- The Sau Sau -- Tahitian popular music on record -- Cultural renaissance: Mata Tu'u Hotu Iti -- Contemporary Pacific festivals -- Performing the Pacific. 5 Commercial connections: Midcentury American influences -- The Rapanui singer-songwriter -- 1970s rock and pop -- Film, television, and sound recording -- Matato'a -- Mito and fusión Rapa Nui -- A local recording industry -- Rapanui music in the twenty-first century -- Varua -- Topatangi -- Conclusion: Rapanui music futures. Epilogue. Glossary of Rapanui musical terms and cultural references -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
An exemplary investigation into music and sustainability, Singing and Survival tells the story of how music helped the Rapanui people of Easter Island preserve their unique cultural heritage |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on March 26, 2020) |
| Subject |
Rapanui (Easter Island people) -- Music -- History and criticism
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Music -- Easter Island -- History and criticism
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Rapanui (Easter Island people) -- Social life and customs
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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Music
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Easter Island
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190297060 |
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0190297069 |
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9780190297053 |
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0190297050 |
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